Imagining the Course of Life by Nancy Eberhardt
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life incontemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to thecomplexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived andexperienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of humandevelopment and a theoretical consideration of how anyethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing onlong-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, NancyEberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course areconnected to local constructions of self and personhood. In theprocess, she draws our attention to contrasting models in theEuro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we thinkabout the trajectory of a human life.
Nancy Eberhardt is professor of anthropology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780824829193 |
| ISBN 10 | 0824829190 |
| Title | Imagining the Course of Life |
| Author | Nancy Eberhardt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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